Street scene.

Street scene looking towards the city.

[ca. 1889]

1889

Hocken Pictorial Collections - 17,153

a10531

Subject once thought to be a view in Dunedin, but now thought, by Margaret Taylor, to be a street in Ballarat, Australia. Title taken from work exhibited in the New Zealand & South Seas Exhibition Dunedin, 1889-90. panel is from cigar box.

Lower right (l.r.) with brush: G.P. Nerli [monogram]; verso in pencil: Nerli. Fisher; verso in chalk: FIS

140 x 225 mm (irregular)

oil on wood panel

A.H. Fisher; Fisher estate; Hocken Library 1961. Bought from Harris’s auction, Dunedin, 1961.